TAGIEs - Celebrating the Makers of Play!
2012 Toy & Game Innovation Awards
The TAGIEs are an elegant and playful evening gala that brings together industry leaders from inventors to manufacturers to retailers as well as the public for a celebratory evening of innovators and inventors from around the world.
The Toy & Game Innovation Awards are voted on by industry experts, retailers and consumers to recognize recipients for excellence in various categories. The TAGIEs also recognize the teams the inventors worked with at the companies that brought their ideas to life. This collaboration and inventiveness has resulted in the most fun and entertaining play products on the market today. We also honor to those inventor greats who stand out in the toy industry for their exceptionally innovative spirit of fun, philanthropy, and humanitarianism.
2012 TAGIEs
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
Kevin Harrington Speaking at the 2012 TAGIEs
2012 Highlights!
Bruce Lund - 2012 TAGIE Awards Keynote
2012 TAGIEs Winners
Electronic Adaptation 2012
Invented Exploding Kittens
Invented Malia’s Beach House
Invented the Millenium Falcon
Rising Star 2012
Seth and Alexia Kempe
HoodiePet
Young Inventor 2012
2012 Keynote and TAGIEs Honorees
Lifetime Acheivement Award
Hassenfeld Family Humanitarian Award
Stan Clutton
in Memoriam
Dan and his partners have created products such as Bop It, HyperGames, PC Playsets, Perplexus and so much more!
Music provided by Skip Towne and the Grehounds, Chicago's #1 Blues Band! The band's music is hard-driving, heartfelt, classic blues, jazz, swing, ballads, and downright good time Rockin’ Blues.
Nickelodeon
Dora the Explorer
Character Creation 2012
Mel Taft
Inventor Advocacy
5th Annual TAGIE Awards (2012)
Host:
Tim Walsh
Introduction to Keynote:
Phil Sage, Hasbro
Keynote
Bruce Lund, Lund & Co.
2012 Recipient for Excellence in Toy Design
Winner: Tony Morley, Red Racer Studio
Presenter: Andrew Tychsen, Cepia LLC
Finalist: Dave Yearick
Finalist: Lonnie Johnson
Finalist: Michael McGinnis
Finalist: Nancy Zwiers
2012 Recipient for Excellence in Game Design
Winner: Leslie Scott, Oxford Games
Presenter: Richard Gill, NH Contract Management
Finalist: Klaus Teuber, Catahn Junior and Rivals for Catan
Finalist: David L. Hoyt, Word Winder
Finalist: Maureen Hiron
Finalist: Ken Johnson
2012 Recipient for Rising Star Inventor
Winner: Martin Nedergaard Andersen, Camp Games
Presenter: Richard Gottlieb, Global Toy Experts
Finalists Nicholas Cravotta & Rebecca Bleau, Blue Matter Games
Finalist: Gina Manola, Calico
Finalist: Rosie Robertson
Finalist: Patrick Matthews, Live Oak Games
2012 Recipient for Electronic Adaptation
Winner: Apptivity by Mattel, Accepted by Paul King, Design Director
Presenter: Brian Torney, Otherdoor Entertainment
Finalist: Skylanders, Activision
Finalist: Lazer Tag, Hasbro
Finalist: LeapPad 2, Leapfrog
Finalist: Furby, Hasbro
2012 Recipient for Young Inventor
Winner: Seth and Alexia Kempe, HoodiePets
Presenter: Kevin Harrington, As Seen on TV Inc
Finalist: Miranda Evarts, Sleeping Queens
Finalist: Lexi Glenn, Pumpanator
2012 Honoree for Character Creation
Winner: Nickelodeon, Dora the Explorer
Created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes, and Eric Weiner
Accepted by Diana Longoria, VP of Business and Legal Affairs, Nickelodeon
Stan Clutton, Inventor and Company Relations
Presenter: Steven Toth, Fisher-Price
Accepted by Dottie Clutton
2012 Honorees for Inventor Advocacy
Mel Taft, Hasbro
Accepted by Reyn Guyer, Reyn Guyer Creative
2012 Honoree for Hassenfeld Humanitarian Award
Presenter: Ellie Hassenfeld Block
2012 Honoree for Lifetime Achievement
Presenter: Mike Gray, Hasbro